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Juan Escalante’s father fell for the Dodge Challenger at the 1969 Detroit Auto Show, months before it reached dealerships. The 426 Hemi, four-speed R/T he eventually bought — one of only 137 built with that combination — spent 24 years in Venezuela, where local enthusiasts nicknamed it ‘El Hemi,’ before a nine-year restoration brought it back. The car was finished in 2005. Its owner didn’t live to see it.
Jeff Schwartz of Schwartz Performance Inc. spent two years turning a 1970 Plymouth ‘Cuda into something far more than a restoration: a Pearl Orange Metallic restomod packing 805 horsepower from a 426 Hemi, built on a modern chassis and engineered to handle like a road-ready race car. The shape is instantly familiar. Almost everything underneath it isn’t.
Red Victor doesn’t look like much — a modest Vauxhall Victor body hiding a turbocharged setup pushing roughly 2200 horsepower to the pavement. In this clip, that power translates into a genuine 0-60 time measured in a single second, a number that’s kept viewers arguing about the car’s legitimacy for years. The comment section reads like a decade-long debate about what ‘street legal’ should really mean. Watch the run and decide for yourself.
A brand-new, completely stock 2018 Mustang GT heads straight to the strip — break-in period be damned — with the owner’s wife and daughter along for the ride. The 119 mph trap speed on box-stock tires drew immediate praise from viewers, but it’s the family moment at the end, and the years of comments from people rewatching it since, that turned a simple run into something people keep coming back to.
A five-car rundown of the least dependable vehicles ever built pairs a push-bar Ford Taurus with a Dodge Neon SRT-4 caught on fire and a Mitsubishi Evo broken down roadside, and the reasons behind each failure are more specific than the title lets on. The comments section turns into its own debate, with viewers arguing over Dodge’s reliability reputation since its Fiat ownership and trading stories of five-figure repair bills. Watch the full breakdown and see which car actually deserved its spot.
When Chrysler’s 6.4-liter HEMI SRT V8 launched, it used a pushrod layout that critics considered outdated — and still made 470 naturally aspirated horsepower across the Charger, Challenger, 300, and Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8. Chief engineer Gary Rogers explains the engineering decisions behind the numbers directly in this Insider Interview. Watch to understand why an ‘old’ engine architecture kept winning arguments it wasn’t supposed to win.
Dodge never actually built a 1971 Charger Daytona — the aero-warrior program ended after 1970. Gary and Pam Beineke built one anyway, using documentation of an actual Chrysler prototype, then added a 472 Six Pack, a Bi-wing spoiler, a pistol-grip five-speed, and, improbably, a sunroof. Completed in 2001 and shown at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals, it’s a recreation detailed enough to make Mopar loyalists stop and ask questions. Watch to see how close two people got to building the car Chrysler almost made.
This 1970 Plymouth ‘Cuda AAR in EB5 Blue wears the signature strobe stripe and free-breathing 340 Six Pack that Plymouth built specifically to homologate the car for SCCA Trans-Am racing. Genuine AAR ‘Cudas carry a distinct VIN sequence that separates them from tribute cars wearing the same graphics, and this one checks out. Restored and offered through V8 Speed & Resto Shop, it’s a reminder that some of the era’s best-looking muscle cars started life as racing paperwork. Watch to see what a homologation special looks like done right.
Phil Roitman’s 1973 Buick Century Gran Sport Stage 1 just earned a perfect 1,000-out-of-1,000 score at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals, and commenters say its 455-cubic-inch idle might be the best-sounding exhaust note from any 1973 car, period. Roitman has owned the Harvest Gold Gran Sport since 2005 — and he holds another distinction too, having been the very first guest ever filmed for this YouTube series four years before this appearance. Watch to hear the engine note that has viewers arguing Buick built the real sleeper of 1973.
Chevrolet built only 201 examples of the 1965 Chevelle Malibu SS Z16, and this Rally Red survivor may be one of an estimated 65 still around today. Under the hood sits the 375-horsepower L37 396, a detuned cousin of the Corvette’s L78, backed by a Muncie four-speed and an options list — tilt wheel, four-speaker stereo, 160-mph speedometer — that reads more like a luxury package than a muscle car spec sheet. One commenter even claims to own car number 40 of the original 201. Watch to see what made the Z16 Chevrolet’s quiet halo car.
Ask ten muscle car owners what a quality repaint should cost and you’ll get ten different answers — some of them off by thousands of dollars. One refinishing shop tackled the question head-on with numbers that immediately split its comment section, with some viewers pricing out paint classes as a cheaper alternative. Watch to find out what actually separates a 2,000 dollar respray from a 10,000 dollar one.
Justin Pritchard puts a 2018 Dodge Challenger T/A 392 through its paces for AutoTrader Canada, opening with a Call of Duty comparison that’s since become one of the most quoted lines in the car’s comments. Owners weigh in on second-gear thrills, twisty-road composure, and where this trim sits against the pricier Hellcat. A currency mix-up over the car’s roughly sixty-one-thousand-dollar price tag adds its own twist. Watch to see why so many buyers call this the sweet spot.
This 1965 Plymouth Barracuda Formula S has just 5,804 original miles — and after two careful owners spanning nearly six decades, this was its first car show ever. Owner Ron George’s dad got him and his brother into Mopars as kids, and this unrestored survivor even has commenters debating a muffler note that later model years reportedly lost. Watch to see what nearly six decades of restraint actually looks like.
Cliff Batson calls himself a Chevy guy — but he’s owned this 1968 Ford Mustang GT Fastback in an unusual shade of Lime Gold since 1990, and it’s never left his garage. Under the hood is a drivetrain combo collectors still chase decades later, and the body shares its shape with the most famous car chase in movie history. Watch to find out why a self-described Chevy guy never let this Ford go.
This 1965 Chevrolet Impala SS carries the rare RPO L78 396 engine, factory-rated at 425 horsepower and backed by a 4-speed manual — a combination that may survive in as few as five convertible examples today. Two commenters share their own family histories with the exact same drivetrain. Watch for the burnout at the end that one viewer calls the king of all time.